1.01 Beginnings of Psychology

What is trephination?

• A modern psychological practice

• Drilling holes into the skull

• A type of ancient writing

• A method of meditation

The debate between nature and nurture involves which of the following?

• Genetic and biological factors vs. environment

• Ancient vs. modern psychology

• Trephination vs. meditation

• Thought vs. behavior.

Trephination is significant to modern psychology because it shows that prehistoric peoples linked the brain to ______.

• A) behavior

• B) agriculture

• C) art

• D) language

Phrenology was a pseudoscience that believed different portions of the brain were responsible for different functions. True or False?

• True

• False

Who set up the first true scientific psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879?

• William James

• Edward Titchener

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Max Wertheimer

Functionalism considers mental life and behavior in terms of how the mind adapts to changing situations and environments. True or False?

• True

• False

Fill in the blank: Wilhelm Wundt is known for his work in ________, which sought to identify the basic elements of consciousness.

• Functionalism

• Structuralism

• Behaviorism

• Gestalt psychology

Fill in the blank: ________ is the idea that all knowledge should come from the senses and that science can only flourish through observation and experimentation.

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

• Idealism

• Pragmatism